Houghton

This #Union Buildings tagged image is courtesy of Flickr. Click on the Flickr account holder below the photograph to see more. Image by denisbin Houghton and Inglewood. A private town was created in 1841 on some land leased by John Richardson from Sir John Morphett. Richardson named his property Houghton Lodge and then he subdivided some of it into Houghton village. At the centre of his village he laid out an English style green. It was planted with English trees- Elms, Oaks etc. The first …